Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

The discovery that weather radar systems can detect meteorite falls marks a significant leap in how scientists study and ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Modern weather radars detect meteorite falls, confirming shocking daytime flashes and guiding precise recoveries.

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident's ice cream, university officials ...

On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, a rock smashed through the back windshield of an SUV parked in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, ...